GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 762, 10 March 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

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1 STILL MORE SOAP DAMAGES. .•■;,;! J ~i(Re?ij...March -9i ;( ,p.m.) ,'...,■ . . .. ' ' : . '..■'.■'.. tonddn,'"]V[arch 9. • ■ilfossrs.:' Ogston., aid'.Tennant,. soap nianufacturers,: r haye. been awarded ,£9OOO against ,-th'e,.Glasgo\vv,.'.'Daily Record"- for. defamation an with the libels which, formed'..the! ..basis.- of . Lever. Brothers' damages ./against, the "Daily Mail.". An,action against the Associated Newspapers, another. Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe) associajion, .was settled, Ogston i'. and Co,. receiving JE4SOO and costs.

CARNEGIE GIFT TO TEACHERS. :. ~...': ..'■:■'.New York, March 9. , Mr. Andrew Carpegie has given ,£60,000 to establish a,fund in ten leading cities of the' United States- for sending. teachers abroad to study. , educational methods.

,'. ON, FOOT ".THROUGH ASIA. . : ■'■■':•., .j|. Calcutta, March S. './Lieutenant . P?rcy Etherton, of ; -the Garhwal Rifles, jhas made a remarkable journey througb Central .and Northern Asia, covering fjur thousand miles afoot. He left the Himalayas and crossed the Pamirs,. Yarkaijd, ..and' the Altai 'Mountains to SiberiL .'There' he struck the Novononisk Station, and thence travelled to iluropei .1 . .■■

-INTERNATIt>NAL INSTITUTE OF ;■.:■■ .;,■-■; AGRICULTURE.'■ " . > _~"-,' J'.' . . Rome, March 8. ;The Marqnia of. Cappelli has succeeded Signor as: President of the International Instiiute'o'f. Agriculture (which was lately-.reported, to be in" danger of collapsing/owing to internal feuds). The f? ce ?.,,. oubl ? arose in connection with the filling of;minor posts, but the Britiah and jsome of the other delegates remained neutral. <.■■.■!.'

■ ■■■''■ : |' ■■ y •'.■■■ 'FLOODS IN; SOUTH. AUSTRALIA. ■„„ ,'i . Adelaide, March 9. The county is flooded in many parts. ELECTRip LIGHTING PROFIT. „„ '■ ,- ] ■. Sydney, March 9. 'M w°r J- &i , of ' the City Council's electno lighting last year was £17,898. davis' cup- english challenge . ;■. ;■;.:! ; late... ..■ ' '-. /[■ ' Sydney, March 9 The secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association to-cay received a cablegram from, the secretary of the English Lawn Tennis Association challenging for tho Davis Cnp. 'Ihe cablegram is dated London, March I. As the regulations provide that a challenge should reach tho champion nation not later than the first Monday in JJnrch, it is two days late. The secretary; of the Australasian Association has alvised the President of the American -Lain Tennis Association, asking .whether lis Association is agreeable to the acceptance of the challenge, seeing that it arrived late. No further steps will be iaken. ' , '

DIPHTHERIA, IN SYDNEY. •' , . ' I ' Sydney, March 9; ihoro ie an, epidemic of diphtheria in Sydney and ,stburbs. ■ Thirty-seven fresh cases, wore reported last week, and at present there are f3 cases in one hospital, and many in other. hospitals. In several cases the outlreak has been traced to the milk supplf. COAL FOR JAPANESE CRUISERS. • - -. I - Sydney, March 0. A-Japanese collier with bunker coal for the -visitiig Japanese cruisers Aso and soya has hrrived here. , ■.'•LATE-SHIPPING. „-.,,'■' ! ■ Syo'ney, March 9. Railed, at i ).m.: Maheno. i. ~' ■•■ '; Newcastle, March 9. r 'Sailed: HazellCraig, for New Zealand. „ ' i' Melbourne, March 9. Sailed: Warrinoo.

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